I'm probably going to use this analogy for a future video, but since I haven't released anything in a while, I'll share it here as well. ----------------------- Here's why it's important to write down ideas and thoughts. I often find that the ideas that I have, when I keep them in my head for too long, are like a massive fog in my brain. They take a lot of space, and they obstruct my thinking.
Let's say that I have an idea for a video. An idea for something that bothers me and that I want to talk about. As long as that idea only stays in my mind, it's allowed to expand in my brain, without becoming much more concrete. Again, it's a fog. It's abstract. Since it's only possibility, it feels bigger than it probably, actually is.
Writing my ideas down often feels like I'm compressing that fog down to its liquid form, and pouring it into a glass. What I find is that, once I actually start making the idea more concrete, writing it, defining it and having to limit it by defining it with words, and not just emotion, it takes up less space. It was once a massive fog, that I couldn't control, couldn't grasp, and that would hinder me, because of how both massive and diffuse it is. But now, it's all contained within a glass, in a liquid form, that I can play with much more easily. I can grasp the glass much more easily in my head, like I can now grasp the idea much more easily in my mind.
That doesn't mean that the idea is or was always bad, quite the opposite. It might be, but at least, once you got the main idea written down, and the fog is dispersed, it's easier to think about and expend on it.
Writing is good for you, good for your brain, and good for your thinking capabilities.
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I'm probably going to use this analogy for a future video, but since I haven't released anything in a while, I'll share it here as well.
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Here's why it's important to write down ideas and thoughts. I often find that the ideas that I have, when I keep them in my head for too long, are like a massive fog in my brain. They take a lot of space, and they obstruct my thinking.
Let's say that I have an idea for a video. An idea for something that bothers me and that I want to talk about. As long as that idea only stays in my mind, it's allowed to expand in my brain, without becoming much more concrete. Again, it's a fog. It's abstract. Since it's only possibility, it feels bigger than it probably, actually is.
Writing my ideas down often feels like I'm compressing that fog down to its liquid form, and pouring it into a glass. What I find is that, once I actually start making the idea more concrete, writing it, defining it and having to limit it by defining it with words, and not just emotion, it takes up less space. It was once a massive fog, that I couldn't control, couldn't grasp, and that would hinder me, because of how both massive and diffuse it is. But now, it's all contained within a glass, in a liquid form, that I can play with much more easily. I can grasp the glass much more easily in my head, like I can now grasp the idea much more easily in my mind.
That doesn't mean that the idea is or was always bad, quite the opposite. It might be, but at least, once you got the main idea written down, and the fog is dispersed, it's easier to think about and expend on it.
Writing is good for you, good for your brain, and good for your thinking capabilities.
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